Politifact.com: Statements from Sid Millerhttps://www.politifact.com/personalities/sid-miller/Statements from Sid Miller reviewed by Politifact.comen-usWed, 06 Sep 2017 16:21:57 -0400Sid Miller - Sid Miller: Poll shows 70 percent to 75 percent of Americans oppose removals of Confederate statueshttps://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2017/sep/06/sid-miller/sid-miller-poll-shows-70-percent-75-percent-americ/The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Sid Miller: Poll shows 70 percent to 75 percent of Americans oppose removals of Confederate statues
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<p>Sid Miller objected to the recent in-the-night removals of four statues of people with Confederate ties from pedestals at the University of Texas. The big-hatted Republican serving as Texas agriculture commissioner&nbsp;further said most Americans agree that such statues should be left in place. In an August 2017 interview with Karina Kling of Spectrum Cable&rsquo;s Capital Tonight,&nbsp;Miller disputed the notion that statues venerating Confederate figures touch off controversy. &quot;I don&rsquo;t believe they do cause controversy,&quot; Miller said. &quot;I saw a poll, I think (on) NPR, 70 or 75 percent of the people would like to see those statues remain ...</p> <a href="/texas/statements/2017/sep/06/sid-miller/sid-miller-poll-shows-70-percent-75-percent-americ/">>> More</a>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:21:57 -0400https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2017/sep/06/sid-miller/sid-miller-poll-shows-70-percent-75-percent-americ/Sid Miller - Sid Miller posts manipulated photo of &#39;The Rock&#39; wearing a pro-flag T-shirthttps://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/dec/07/sid-miller/sid-miller-posts-manipulated-photo-the-rock-facebo/The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Sid Miller posts manipulated photo of 'The Rock' wearing a pro-flag T-shirt
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<p>Sid Miller, the Texas agriculture commissioner perhaps destined to join President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s administration, has a prolific social media presence. The politician regularly posts memes, photos and his reactions to daily news, at times critical of reporting and often without attribution. His &quot;Miller for Texas&quot; Facebook fan page has more than 330,000 likes. On Nov. 27, 2016, Miller posted a fresh unattributed photo, this time of the muscled actor Dwayne &quot;The Rock&quot; Johnson, shown wearing a T-shirt with a message Miller endorsed. Johnson&rsquo;s shirt read: &quot;We stand for the flag, we kneel for the fallen,&quot; along ...</p> <a href="/texas/statements/2016/dec/07/sid-miller/sid-miller-posts-manipulated-photo-the-rock-facebo/">>> More</a>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 11:00:00 -0500https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/dec/07/sid-miller/sid-miller-posts-manipulated-photo-the-rock-facebo/Sid Miller - Sid Miller says Texas university offers &#39;safe spaces&#39; for students fearing Donald Trumphttps://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/nov/17/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-texas-university-trump-safe-spaces/The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Sid Miller says Texas university offers 'safe spaces' for students fearing Donald Trump
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<p>Two days after the November 2016 elections, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller took note on his Facebook page of a web post suggesting a Texas A&amp;M University campus was offering counseling and &quot;safe spaces for students who are afraid of President-elect Trump.&quot; Did the cowboy-hatted Republican, who was Donald Trump&rsquo;s most-cited Texan in the days before the vote, highlight accurate information? Trump unexpectedly defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8, 2016, after more than 18 months of a bitter campaign--and nationally after the election, at least 43 colleges and universities offered support services, according to news reports, with some ...</p> <a href="/texas/statements/2016/nov/17/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-texas-university-trump-safe-spaces/">>> More</a>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:36:44 -0500https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/nov/17/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-texas-university-trump-safe-spaces/Sid Miller - Sid Miller incorrectly says law he authored touched off 130 helicopter hog hunting businesseshttps://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/aug/12/sid-miller/sid-miller-incorrectly-says-law-he-authored-touche/The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Sid Miller incorrectly says law he authored touched off 130 helicopter hog hunting businesses
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<p>Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller keeps a toothsome mounted boar&rsquo;s head on a wall outside his office. A toy helicopter looks like it&#39;s floating above. As a Texas House member, the Stephenville Republican carried into law a 2011 measure enabling hunters to shoot at feral hogs or coyotes from helicopters, provided the landowner or his agent has given permission. &quot;It became law,&quot; Miller told Austin American-Statesman columnist Ken Herman during an office tour in June 2016, &quot;and we have 130 new businesses across Texas doing helicopter hog hunts. Took a liability and turned it into an asset. It&rsquo;s ...</p> <a href="/texas/statements/2016/aug/12/sid-miller/sid-miller-incorrectly-says-law-he-authored-touche/">>> More</a>Fri, 12 Aug 2016 17:11:48 -0400https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/aug/12/sid-miller/sid-miller-incorrectly-says-law-he-authored-touche/Sid Miller - Sid Miller posts fake photo of Obama holding Che Guevara T-shirthttps://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/mar/25/sid-miller/miller-posts-fake-photo-obama-holding-che-guevara-/The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire! | Sid Miller posts fake photo of Obama holding Che Guevara T-shirt
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<p>During President Barack Obama&rsquo;s historic trip to Cuba, he took in a baseball game, met with leader Raul Castro and attended a wreath ceremony for a Cuban journalist and poet. In the background of the ceremony was a mural of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto &quot;Che&quot; Guevara several stories high on the side of a building. Guevara,&nbsp;who&nbsp;met exiled brothers Fidel and Raul Castro in Mexico in 1955, and was a key figure in the Cuban Revolution that overthrew the dictator Fulgencio Batista.&nbsp;Obama&rsquo;s photo in front of the mural drew criticism, but according to one ...</p> <a href="/texas/statements/2016/mar/25/sid-miller/miller-posts-fake-photo-obama-holding-che-guevara-/">>> More</a>Fri, 25 Mar 2016 18:52:57 -0400https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/mar/25/sid-miller/miller-posts-fake-photo-obama-holding-che-guevara-/Sid Miller - Sid Miller says voters in Mexico must have a tamper-proof photo ID with hologram, thumbprinthttps://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2015/aug/26/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-voters-mexico-must-have-tamper-pro/The Truth-o-Meter says: True | Sid Miller says voters in Mexico must have a tamper-proof photo ID with hologram, thumbprint
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<p>Texan Sid Miller, who&#39;s lately gotten attention for an online post about dropping a nuclear bomb in the Middle East, drew our gaze with a closer-to-home meme defending the Texas voter identification law under court challenge that requires voters at the polls to present government-issued photo identification. The meme placed on Miller&rsquo;s Facebook page Aug. 16, 2015, shows what looks like a voter registration card issued by Mexico under this text: &quot;To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican has to have a tamper-proof photo-ID card with a thumbprint and an embossed hologram.&quot; The meme goes on to say ...</p> <a href="/texas/statements/2015/aug/26/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-voters-mexico-must-have-tamper-pro/">>> More</a>Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:09:06 -0400https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2015/aug/26/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-voters-mexico-must-have-tamper-pro/Sid Miller - Sid Miller says Texas farmers &#39;just about maxed out&#39; in water conservationhttps://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2015/may/04/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-texas-farmers-just-about-maxed-out/The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Sid Miller says Texas farmers 'just about maxed out' in water conservation
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<p>Sid Miller, the Texas agriculture commissioner, said at a March 2015 symposium that farmers in the state have little room to save more water. Miller, responding to Evan Smith of the Texas Tribune, prefaced his claim by saying Texas is out of &quot;surplus water.&quot; He went on to say that as much as the state has urbanized, agricultural production has surged &mdash; and all that with farmers needing less water. &quot;So agriculture is at 98, according to the water development board, we&rsquo;re at 98 percent efficiency,&quot; meaning 2 percent of water used to raise crops isn&rsquo;t going to ...</p> <a href="/texas/statements/2015/may/04/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-texas-farmers-just-about-maxed-out/">>> More</a>Mon, 04 May 2015 06:00:00 -0400https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2015/may/04/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-texas-farmers-just-about-maxed-out/Sid Miller - Sid Miller says, &#39;We have towns in West Texas that are out of water&#39; https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2015/apr/08/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-we-have-towns-west-texas-are-out-w/The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False | Sid Miller says, 'We have towns in West Texas that are out of water'
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<p>At a March 2015 symposium on water in Texas, the state&rsquo;s agriculture commissioner was asked about his agency&rsquo;s actions in that realm. Sid Miller, a former legislator who took office in January 2015, replied that just that week he&rsquo;d signed off on water wells being drilled in two West Texas communities with less than 180-day water supplies. Miller, a Republican, continued: &quot;We have towns in West Texas that are out of water, that are having to truck in water.&quot; We were familiar with occasional past shortages. But is that happening again? When we requested Miller&rsquo;s backup information, Agriculture ...</p> <a href="/texas/statements/2015/apr/08/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-we-have-towns-west-texas-are-out-w/">>> More</a>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:00:00 -0400https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2015/apr/08/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-we-have-towns-west-texas-are-out-w/